Self-Driving Cars (Udacity)
medium.com/self-driving-cars · Company blog · on HN since 2016
Udacity's Self-Driving Car Nanodegree team and its instructors write about the curriculum, autonomous vehicle careers, and research reviews.
What HN saysHN links it for self-driving coverage; commenters discuss the course projects, safety statistics, and adversarial traffic signs.
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- 1In Depth on Udacity's Self Driving Car Curriculum6 people · 6 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 2How to Land an Autonomous Vehicle Job: Coursework2 people · 29 points · first shared 2016 · 4 comments on HN
- 3Udacity’s Self-Driving Car Nanodegree2 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · 2 comments on HN
- 4How to Land an Autonomous Vehicle Job: Projects2 people · 1 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 5Adversarial traffic signs fd16b71719062 people · first shared 2017
- 6Autonomous Shipping Containers – Self-Driving Cars – Medium1 people · 13 points · first shared 2016 · 6 comments on HN
- 7Review: Apple and Baidu and Deep Neural Networks for Point Clouds1 people · 5 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 8Safer Roads and Cleaner Air with Autonomous Fleets1 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 9Explosive Growth at Cruise1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 10Udacity Open Source Self-Driving Car Simulator1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 11Swarms of Autonomous Attack Drones1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 12Self-Driving Car Predictions for 20181 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 13How to land an autonomous vehicle job ffb641570b011 people · first shared 2016
- 14How to land an autonomous vehicle job networking d2bcd6a8e6561 people · first shared 2016
- 15Miles driven 677bda21b0f71 people · first shared 2018
What HN people wrote when they linked it
viraptor · 2018-03-20
Not sure it's that clear. Using data from Wikipedia, I got 11 deaths per billion km. The 4 million miles are just from Weymo, not all autonomous cars in total. (6 million+ https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/miles-driven-677bda21b0f7) And the confidence level on the 1 event over 6+ million miles is not great either.
m_leclerc · 2016-10-05
I think the SDCND is a great opportunity to get hands on experience with cutting edge technologies. You will be evaluated and receive personalized feedback on about 15 practical assignments covering these topics:
Computer vision (Detect lane lines in a variety of conditions, including changing road surfaces, curved roads, and variable lighting), Neural networks (classify traffic signs, drive a car in a simulator), Track vehicles in camera images using image classifiers such as SVMs, decision trees, HOG, and DNNs.
More projects will cover these topics: Sensor Fusion, Localization, Control, Path Planning, Systems and an Elective.
If you know of comparable ressource to gain experience with all this material please share, I'm not aware of any.
Official source: http://medium.com/self-driving-cars/term-1-in-depth-on-udacitys-self-d…
knodi123 · 2016-09-17
That seems to be an article about how David Silver intends to write some articles on the subject.
Do you know how to find the actual article on the subject?
*edit:
Found it! Google is a much better way to search medium than medium's worthless navigation/search.
Here are the three articles:
https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/how-to-land-an-autonomous-vehicle…
https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/how-to-land-an-autonomous-vehicle…
https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/how-to-land-an-autonomous-vehicle…
adhesive_wombat · 2022-09-12
Most interesting to think about are the stickers[1] that look random but actually trigger some kind of adversarial behaviour, a bit like how tiny human-imperceptible changes to an image can completely flip an image categorisation network's guess.
Perhaps most fun to think about in a Dan Brown-style NSA capabilities combined with Peter Watts' Blindsight's near-total-imformation perceptual-cognitive shenanigans kind of way.
[1]: https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/adversarial-traffic-signs-fd16b71…
jowday · 2020-12-08
That video isn't an example of this. Tesla's statements about fleet learning are pretty much theoretical - they're talking about a system they want to build someday. Right now, their motion planning and prediction is all hardcoded robotics.
See Karpathy's talk here: https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/annotated-karpathys-autopilot-tal…
cool_username · 2017-09-07
I agree that this and the 'adversarial road signs' work indicate a growing interest in security attacks on ML.
https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/adversarial-traffic-signs-fd16b71…
However, in this case, it's not just machine learning. It will affect non-ML audio-processing systems just as much.
mck- · 2016-11-16
Next decade, the NYT will run another story titled: "Biggest drop in traffic deaths in 60 years".
Autonomous cars are around the corner and it's the only way to truly make a leap forward in terms of traffic safety.
And people can spend even more time on their apps while commuting, uninterrupted by this soon-to-be-forgotten distraction called "manual driving".
Incidentally wrote a blog about this today: https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/safer-roads-and-cleaner-air-with-…
my_first_acct · 2016-10-06
https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/term-1-in-depth-on-udacitys-self-…
has some details.
denkasyanov · 2016-10-05
Dawny33 · 2016-07-21
Corresponding [Reddit discussion](https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/4tsi2n/udacity_selfd… and [Medium post](https://medium.com/self-driving-cars/udacitys-self-driving-car-nanodeg…